Microsoft’s SideWinder X4: A Ghost-Busting Keyboard?

The inside of a traditional dome-switch keyboard. When certain combinations of three or more keys are pressed at the same time, the wires that activate the keys can become shorted together, thus causing certain key presses to be lost. (These are called ghosts.)

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